Your ancestry would be the same as your race.
For example I was born in America, as were all my grandparents, but my race is not American. Its Northern European, because if I were to get a dna test, the results would show that is where my genes are from. You would be European with a bit of Native American, so by definition you are mixed. Your race or ancestry is what a dna test would reveal.
I think you are a bit confused;
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.
I believe what you are referring to is “ethnic groups”, not the 4 races.
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Your ancestry would be the same as your race.
For example I was born in America, as were all my grandparents, but my race is not American. Its Northern European, because if I were to get a dna test, the results would show that is where my genes are from. You would be European with a bit of Native American, so by definition you are mixed. Your race or ancestry is what a dna test would reveal.
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I think you are a bit confused;
The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.
I believe what you are referring to is “ethnic groups”, not the 4 races.